Revolutionize Fundraising with Apps Built for Nonprofits !!

Over the years the world of technology has changed drastically. Nonprofits are expected to outperform with less resources and technology plays a significant role in attaining the goal.

Funds are a very important source of revenue for the organization. Constant inflow of funds involves careful management and stewardship of all donors, members, etc and various fundraising activities for the organization.

The Nonprofit Starter Pack is a perfect solution for Nonprofits and provides a cost effective base for Nonprofit core requirements such as relationship tracking, financial processing and committed giving.

For some specialist features, there are amazing applications built on the top of Salesforce platform.

Why apps as Fundraising tools for raising money?

To fundraise more effectively, Fundraising applications play a very vital role.

The range of fundraising features provided by them includes :

Event management,

Online self-service

Individual direct marketing etc.

They extend help to Nonprofits to obtain funds to begin projects, support causes. Combining these apps with the Salesforce Platform helps deliver a 360-degree view of the donors, personalized relationship management.

Helps leverage ticketing, membership, and patron engagement history to drive fundraising. Confirmation emails can automatically be sent in as gifts and contributions come in.Richer understanding of the audience helps target them better for fundraising

3. Affinaquest by Affinaquest

Affinaquest, by Affinaquest, a paid application is the brainchild of the creator of Millennium™, now a product of Sage.

Features:

Helps track solicitations within Campaigns.

Tracks planned & major Gift opportunities.

Tracks all sort of communications & constituent data.

Tracks recurring gifts, records soft credits for gifts & pledges etc.

4. Causeview by Breakeven

Causeview, offered by Breakeven, does a good job of streamlining everyday fundraising practices. Provides end to end automation for all the Donor Management Needs.

Features

Causeview provides standard reports and dashboards to make a fundraiser’s life easier and also has a robust new volunteer and event management module.

Opportunities are used to manage major gift and grant prospects through the opportunity pipeline.

Provides sophisticated event management, including ticketing, through functionality specifically built into roundCause

Apps – Comparative Analysis

Solution

Fundraising

Major Gifts

Online Donations

Volunteer Management

Mass Mail

Grant Tracking

Event Management

Auctions

Support Services

Paid

Affinaquest

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CauseView

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NGO Connect

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Patron Manager

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Payments2Us

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Functions present in the application – ■

Requires Third Party Application – ●

Conclusion

Each of these Fundraising applications are unique and potentially great for Nonprofits. The immense benefit from them reduces the manual work and provides quality time to Nonprofits to make better and informed decisions.

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